**Warning: F-bombs abound in this blog post The video Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism (please don’t watch if you are sensitive to F-bombs or sensitive to little girls dropping the F-bomb) sends a powerful message about feminism, the rights of girls...
Tonight I sat with my wife watching TV, as we often do to unwind from the day, and found myself wincing repeatedly. It wasn't because Steven Colbert talked about the new Doritos flavored Mountain Dew (Dewitos? Seriously?) and compared it to drinking the soda and...
This year I wanted to be Harley Quinn for Halloween (from Batman). I accidentally ordered a “teen” costume. When the costume arrived I opened it and started laughing because it look like it was made for a doll. As I went on the website to get the return information I...
An article due out this month in the International Journal of Eating Disorders shows a disturbing trend. Half of all “preferred children’s shows” contained at least one weight-stigmatizing event. The result, of course, is that from a very early age children normalize...
I recently had the pleasure of giving a lecture at the 1st Annual Summer School Symposium for the Eating Disorders Network of Maryland. Once my bit was done talking about males with eating disorders and how to better understand the disease and how it affects boys and...
A patient of mine came in this past week and shared a horrible childhood body image memory. While rummaging through her mom's attic she found a program from when she was 7 and attended her "coronation ceremony" from Taking Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS). It was 1973, and...
Two women huddle together over a table at Panera Bread sharing diet tips with each other. One woman is clutching her iPad as she discusses the rules of her new fabulous diet and how she was able to lose 10 pounds in two weeks. "The trick is to only eat during certain...
Andrew discusses his own experience with fat shaming and body image disturbance, his work at The Body Image Therapy Center and his new book Man Up to Eating Disorders. Listen to the interview at: http://wypr.org/post/body-image-and-weight-bias